"I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is."

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded."

"It is a humble truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."

"It is a essential truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon."

"Wisdom principle 13 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 97."

"It is a unyielding truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."